Covenant of Dreams

Covenant of Dreams

Time's sand flows on, bearing autumn's arrival.
The air is crisp, filled with anticipation
as each living thing prepares for survival.

The hills fade, green to brown, in consolation
with the sky as warmth and succor ebb away,
yielding to change in final confirmation.

Too soon the eburnean clouds will give way
to the north winds, releasing their silver life,
leaving the world under a blanket of grey.

In a celebration of hope and not strife,
the trees make a covenant, in reds and gold,
and promises of new beginnings are rife.

Depleted and dry, each spark sleeps through the cold -
warmed by dreams of the new adventures foretold.

Notes:
An entry for September "Stormy's poetry newsletter & contest"  [ASR]
Word prompts: grey, sands, crisp, silver, dry, adventure, brown, hills
Form: "Terza Rima Sonnet" consists of four tercets (three-lined stanzas) with an interlocking rhyme scheme and a closing couplet (two-lined stanza) which links back to the first stanza (14 total lines). According to ShadowPoetry.com, the Terza Rima Sonnet has eleven syllables per line. The rhyme scheme for the Terza Rima Sonnet is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee. – lines 1 and 3 rhyme with line 2 of the preceding stanza, and the couplet rhymes with line 2 of the fourth tercet.(/size}

eburnean - ivory like

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Ken